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Charlie Albone
Have Straight Lines Had Their Moment? Why Curves Are Shaping Modern Gardens
For years, modern garden design was dominated by straight lines. Square lawns, rectangular garden beds and perfectly parallel paths became the go-to look for new homes across Australia. Clean, structured and easy to plan, they suited the architecture of the time. Today though, the trend is beginning to soften. Landscape designers are moving towards gardens that feel more natural, more inviting and more connected to the environment around them. Instead of rigid corners and sharp edges, we’re seeing flowing pathways, curved garden beds, circular lawns and organic planting layouts becoming the centrepiece of Australian backyards. It’s a subtle change, but…
Overlapping grass creeping into a garden bed is one of those things you stop seeing after a while. The edge softens, the mulch shifts, the line between lawn and planting disappears — and the whole yard starts to look vaguely unresolved without any single thing being obviously wrong. Garden edging defines and holds that line. A clean, continuous edge between lawn and bed, path and planting, gravel and soil. Not just tidy — structurally contained. Grass roots stop where they’re supposed to. Mulch stays put. The shapes you’ve designed into the garden actually read as shapes. How Steel Edging Changes…
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